Leading From the Front: No-Excuse Leadership Tactics for Women (Hardcover)

Marine Corps confidence without the boot camp

As successful consultants teaching leadership to women in the workforce, Angie Morgan and Courtney Lynch have seen that women face particular challenges in feeling comfortable at work--and making their environment work for them. Leading from the Front draws from the authors’ combined 18 years of training in the Marine Corps to teach women how to take control of their environments—both professionally and personally. They reveal 10 key practices that turn women into leaders and improve their decision making, focus, and performance.

• Set an example: Everything you do reflects the type of person you are
• Think fast: Timeliness is often more important than accuracy
• No excuses: Accept responsibility before you place blame
• Be a caretaker first: Take care of and support those you lead
• Don’t overreact: Learn to contemplate a situation before determining the best course of action
• Avoid drama: Aviate, navigate, and communicate to deal with crisis
• Believe you can: Courage + Perseverance + Initiative + Integrity = Success
• No tears: Don’t cry over anything that can’t or won’t cry over you
• No apologies: Say only you’re sorry when you’re at fault
• Be you: Lead as you are and use your unique strengths

“Learning to lead is important for all women. Leadership skills help you make a difference at work, at home, and in your community. Leading from the Front provides women with 10 relevant principles that will complement any leadership style.”-Senator Elizabeth Dole

“Leading from the Front is a brilliant, original, practical, profound, human, energetic book written by two remarkable women. It's one of the best books on leadership published in the last several years.”-Tom Peters

“This engaging book packed with stories from women of courage can help build women with confidence.”-Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School Professor and bestselling author of Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End

“Leading from the Front provides the reader an insider's view of each woman's experiences in America's ultimate boy's club-the United States Marines.”-Gail Evans, author of the bestselling business book Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, and former Executive Vice President, CNN

“Women and men can benefit tremendously from the leadership skills Angie and Courtney learned as Marines. They have captured the essence of leadership versus management.”-Dave Gagnon, Senior Vice President, North America Company Operations and Training, Burger King Corporation

“I never thought about women becoming business leaders through joining the Marine Corps, but how terrific that Angie and Courtney not only found and honed their own leadership skills that way, but also codified their learnings for the rest of us.”-Betty Spence, Ph.D., President, National Association for Female Executives

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